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Originally Posted by brownie
hey man, that was really badass. i've got the Sony HDR-SR1. do u think something like what u did is feasible on something like what i have?? or not really???
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Funny you should ask.. I'm actually building one right now for a Sony VX2000 with a wide angle lens adapter. It's a new configuration actually.
This time I found a drain pipe cover. It's the kind that goes over a drain pipe with all the wholes in it for water to go thru. The one I found was a PERFECT press fit over the lens. I mean... TIGHT, and snug.
I cut off all the wholes, and am left with a ring like in the first tutorial. Then I downloaded a protractor off google image search.
I have 40 LED's and I figured 2 rows of 40 gives me 20 points around the lens in a cirlce of 2 LED's stacked on top of each other. 20 / 360 is 18. So every 18 degrees on the protractor I made a mark and then transferd that mark onto the ring. Now I have an exact spacing for the LED's.
That's as far as I am right now. I hope to be done soon so I can show you. This one will be better.
As far as your SONY. I think it will work. What I would do is buy a pipe fitting that's loose around your lens. Then I would buy small 6-32 threaded nylon screws and then after building the light ring, I'd drill 3 wholes around your light ring and then thread them with a 6-32 tap (also available from the hardware store) then I's use the screws to lock the ring around your lens.
I assume that grip stuff on your lens is the focus ring? So you cant really fuck with it too much, that's why I'd use nylon screws then you could use the light ring as your new focus ring (if you focus that way).. if you rely solely on auto focus then by a ring that's more snug.
You could probably get 3 LED flashlights on your like I dod.. but your lens is so small that it might be too big and bulky. I'd try to build it out of a single row of LED's all the way around.. like maye 36 LED's that way you can put them 10 degrees apart.... I guess that would mean you'd only need 35 LEDs.
Either way.. the light would ABSOLUTELY work for you... You just gotta think it thru a little more that's all.
I'd love to collaborate with you and help you build one if you really try to do it. Hit me up anytime, ICQ 114.683.191 email is redshoe at redshoe dot net.